Dear Faculty, Staff and Students-
Please join us for a very special event!
We are pleased to announce that Slavenka Drakulić -noted Croatian journalist, essayist and
novelist-will be at the Davis Center today to discuss her new book, A Guided Tour through
the Museum of Communism: Fables from a Mouse, a Parrot, a Bear, a Cat, a Mole, a Pig, a
Dog, & a Raven. In his review of the book in The New republic, Tim Snyder argues
"...Slavenka Drakulić summons her own group of animals, each with its own literary
genre, and each with a story to tell about life in a communist country... these stories
are not really fables (despite the subtitle's promise) because the animals do not
reveal the problems of human nature through their own actions, foolish or wise. Instead
they are there to instruct us, and what they are all saying, in their different ways, is:
remember. At bottom this book is the work of a very gifted novelist who is using every
imaginable trick, and some fairly unimaginable ones, to help us recall what seems like the
very recent past."
To learn more about this new work, please attend Slavenka's book talk today (details
below). Please share this announcement with your (current and former) students and
colleagues as it's sure to be of interest to many.
Thursday, April 14
Book Talk
Sponsored by the Davis Center Outreach Program
A Guided Tour through the Museum of Communism: Fables from a Mouse, a Parrot, a Bear, a
Cat, a Mole, a Pig, a Dog, & a Raven
Slavenka Drakulić, Author
1730 Cambridge Street, Concourse Level, Room S020 (Belfer Case Study Room)
4:00-6:00 p.m.
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